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Physicists at UC San Diego have developed a new kind of X-ray microscope that can penetrate deep within materials like Supermanâ€™s fabled X-ray vision and see minute details at the scale of a single nanometer, or one billionth of a meter.

X-rays have been used for decades to take pictures of broken bones, but scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and their collaborators have developed a lensless X-ray technique that can take images of ultra-small structures buried in nanoparticles and nanomaterials, and features within whole biological cells such as cellular nuclei.